VMware and NetApp Cloud Infrastructure

Solutions

NetApp uniquely complements VMware environments—from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud—by providing the best-in-class data protection, the most efficient and scalable storage, and the most flexible IT infrastructure. NetApp does for storage what VMware does for virtualization.

Business Application Virtualization

Together,
VMware vSphere and NetApp bring the benefits of virtualization, including lower cost, increased agility, and higher availability, to your mission critical applications. You can virtualize your largest database, business application and email environments while ensuring service levels are met. VMware and NetApp’s joint solutions offer:

Performance. Virtualize with confidence by meeting or exceeding the performance of physical servers. Scale applications more efficiently on large multicore servers.

Agility. Accelerate application provisioning from weeks to minutes, from the labs to production. Scale applications on-the-fly to meet workload spikes. Speed time to production from weeks to minutes with instant storage provisioning and cloning of virtual machines.

Efficiency. Use at least 50% less storage for your virtual environments—guaranteed.

Desktop Virtualization

VMware Horizon (with View) along with NetApp provides a scalable, cost effective desktop virtualization solution that simplifies management, and increases data security without sacrificing user experience. As a result, it’s easy for IT organizations to deliver desktops from the datacenter as a managed service. Using VMware and NetApp for desktop virtualization provides the enterprise with:

Email, Calendar and Collaboration Platform

VMware Zimbra along with NetApp provides a flexible, scalable and cost effective messaging and collaboration platform designed for virtualization that delivers the most innovative cross-platform Web collaboration application today.

Flexible - The VMware Zimbra Collaboration Server supports all of the available options for storage including NFS, SAS/SATA, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI. When deployed on vSphere, ZCS also supports Network Attached Storage (NAS) for all of its components.

Scalability - For service providers and hosting services moving their services into the cloud, file-based storage provides significant operational, cost and management reduction.

Innovative End-User Experience - Delivering a powerful and more flexible web-based experience is a major component of the Zimbra mission. Traditionally, email has been largely a client-focused experience on a single desktop (which is fine for some users) but can limit productivity (fewer features, no anywhere access, not cross-platform). Zimbra’s AJAX web experience liberates end-users by providing the best of both worlds (looks like a client but works on the web).

VMware on Netapp.com

A server-to-storage virtualized infrastructure is an efficient and cost-effective way to manage your data center. NetApp virtualized storage solutions, used in conjunction with VMware, simplify data protection and expand the benefits of your virtualized applications—from improved flexibility and reduced provisioning times, to increased resource utilization and performance.